'The "Rapide"?' he interrupted, his blue eyes starting like flowers from the earth.
'Quicker far than that. I've got——'
They stared so hard and so expectantly, it was almost like an interruption. The bird paused in its rushing song to listen too.
'——a Starlight Express,' he finished, caught now in the full tide of fairyland. 'It came here several nights ago. It's being loaded up as full as ever it can carry. I'm to drive it back again when once it's ready.'
'Where is it now?'
'Who's loading it?'
'How fast does it go? Are there accidents and collisions?'
'How do you find the way?'
'May I drive it with you?'
'Tell us exactly everything in the world about it—at once!'